Chaos - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · The main literary source for Chaos’ origins and mythological role is Hesiod(eighth/seventh century BCE), whose Theogony makes Chaos the first entity of the …
Japanese Gods - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · Japanese gods and goddesses include everyone from powerful creator gods to minor, localized kami. Particularly notable is the sun goddess Amaterasu, held to be the divine …
Nyx - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Nyx, daughter of Chaos and personification of the night, was among the first Greek gods of the cosmos. She bore numerous children, both with her brother-consort Erebus …
Eris - Mythopedia
2023年9月7日 · The goddess Eris represented strife in all its forms. Hesiod described her as a cruel, “hard-hearted” [2] figure who inspired and reveled in every kind of conflict. It is hardly …
Amaterasu – Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · With Amaterasu in hiding, the world plunged into darkness and chaos. Thus began the first winter, a hard time for a world used to basking in the sun. The kami looked …
Set – Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · In either case, his unconventional birth was thought to foreshadow his representation of disorder and chaos. The Murder of Osiris. The most important extant myth …
Aztec Gods - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · The Aztec gods and goddesses were a bloodthirsty group whose constant warring with each other led to a cycle of death and rebirth for all humanity. Each of the first …
Nuwa - Mythopedia
2022年12月1日 · Nuwa (女媧) is a popular Chinese goddess associated with fertility and marriage. She created mankind in two different origin myths; once by shaping people out of …
Erebus - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Aristophanes: A parodic (or semi-parodic) cosmogony in the comedy Birds (414 BCE) makes Erebus one of the first beings of the cosmos rather than a son of Chaos. Plato: …
Morrigan – Mythopedia
2023年3月17日 · Hennessy, W. M. "The Ancient Irish Goddess of War." Revue Celtique 1 (1870): 27–57. Herbert, Máire. “Transmutations of an Irish Goddess.” In The Concept of the Goddess, …